The Israeli Knesset on Wednesday postponed for the third time voting on a draft law that prevents reciting the Adhan or Muslim call to prayer from the mosques via loudspeakers.

Ahmed Tibi, an Arab member of the Knesset, stated, “Coalition chairman David Bitan told me that the vote for the call to prayer has been postponed."

“I think what happened is merely a delay not a cancelation for the whole draft”, Tibi added.

The reasons for the delay are not clear yet, but Tibi guessed that it could be due to the divergence of views within the Israeli coalition, in addition to the Israeli president Reuven Rivlin’s rejection of the law.

The Israeli media, however, said that the postponement came after Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, proposed an amendment to the law preventing the call to prayer at all times instead of only at night.

The Israeli president last week launched efforts to abort the draft law following a request by the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The Turkish relief group IHH organized on Wednesday afternoon a massive protest rally outside the Israeli consulate in Istanbul to condemn Israel’s intent to ban mosques from using loudspeakers to recite Adhan (call to prayer).

The participants carried placards and chanted slogans condemning the occupation and its intended anti-Adhan legislation.

In a speech during the protest, IHH spokesman Fathi Yazeji strongly denounced the Israeli occupation state for persisting in its violations and racist policies against the Palestinians and the Islamic holy sites.

Yazeji said that Israel’s racism would never succeed in preventing the Palestinians from reciting Adhan in their cities, towns and villages

“The Israelis say that the sound of Adhan disturbs them, but they should know that they are intruders and must leave Palestine for its people,” he added.

At the end of the event, a group of participants recited the Adhan loudly to confirm further their anger over the Israeli step.

Israeli authorities, on Tuesday, prevented Dr. Isabel Perry from entering into the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt), claiming she is an activist of the World Council of Churches, which supports the boycott movement against Israel.

Local media said, according to Al Ray, that it is the first time the Israeli occupation prevented a tourist because of activity in the boycott movement.

The Interior Minister of Israel, Arye Deri, and the Minister of the Public Security and Strategic Affairs, Gilad Erdan, were responsible for making the decision of blocking Perry’s entry.

Dr. Isabel Perry, a citizen from Malawi and an expert in religious affairs, arrived at Ben Gurion Airport on Monday.

A bill preventing supporters of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement from entering Israel was authorized in early November, for its first reading in the Knesset.

Deri considers approval of Perry’s request to enter the oPt to be encouragement for activities which are in opposition to Israel’s policies.

Christian religious figures have called for necessarily protecting the Arab identity of Jerusalem and its Christian and Islamic holy sites against Israel’s Judaization policy.

This came during a symposium on Jerusalem and its Christian holy sites organized in Beirut by al-Quds International Institution as part of the activities of the 60th International Arab Book Fair.

The symposium, which was attended by religious, political and intellectual figures, was introduced by head of the media department at al-Quds Institution Mohamed Tarboush, who described the Christian presence in Jerusalem as a “deeply-rooted part of the Arab identity of the city.”

In his speech, father Antoine Daou, secretary-general of the Episcopal Commission of the Islamic-Christian Dialogue in Lebanon, stressed the importance of upholding the Arab identity of Jerusalem to protect its history, presence and future against Israel's Judaization activities.

For his part, Greek-Orthodox church Bishop Luke Khoury said that “the Christians in Palestine and Jerusalem are exposed to cruel persecution by the Israeli occupation,” which he accused of seizing their lands and properties and attacking churches and monasteries.

“The Zionist occupation’s measures have displaced the majority of Christians from their towns and villages and forced others to migrate under the yoke of obnoxious occupation, while a group of them are still steadfast living in very harsh political, security and economic conditions,” he said.

Palestinian factions have condemned the decision of the Greek Patriarch Theophilos to cut off the salary of Palestinian archbishop Atallah Hanna due to his outspokenness and principled stances on Palestinian rights.

Such a measure would not help solving problems, a statement by the factions said and expressed solidarity with the archbishop.

The factions called for addressing the differences in a spirit of fraternity.

On the other hand, the national factions expressed gratitude for the Palestinian Christians who refused Israel’s Adhan ban bill in occupied Jerusalem.

The statement also hailed Father Manuel Musallam’s national position after he raised Adhan in a church in a bid to protest against the Israeli bill which would prohibit mosques from using loudspeakers for delivering call to prayer (Adhan) in occupied Jerusalem.

Israeli police prevented on Monday the burial of a Palestinian woman in Bab al-Rahmah cemetery near to al-Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Jerusalem, alleging that the grave is located on an Israeli-owned land.

According to Quds Press agency, the Israeli police forces besieged the cemetery and denied the burial of Khadija Abu Doula after the funeral prayer was performed in al-Aqsa Mosque.

Tension heightened in the area as Israeli policemen ordered the dead woman's family to find another grave since the grave prepared previously was now part of an Israeli land, the agency added.

It said that Israeli policemen arrested two Jerusalemite young men participating in the funeral and took them to Qishleh center for investigation.

The Israeli practice is part of dozens of attacks on the cemetery by either the Israeli police forces or the members of the Israel Nature and Parks Authority who regularly storm the cemetery and demolish its gravestones.

The Israeli police decided Monday to provocatively increase the visiting hours of settlers to al-Aqsa Mosque.

The PIC reporter quoted local sources as saying that an hour has been added to the settlers’ visiting time to al-Aqsa.

The new timing will extend settlers’ presence in al-Aqsa from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m.

Meanwhile, a group of Israeli settlers, escorted by police officers, stormed the plazas of the holy al-Aqsa Mosque on Monday morning.

The settlers broke into the Mosque via the Israeli-controlled Magharibeh gate under a tight security shield by heavily-armed Israeli cops.

The Israeli fanatics reportedly tried to perform Talmudic rituals in the compound in total provocation to the Muslim worshipers and sit-inners.

Meanwhile, a group of Jerusalemites including women were denied access into the compound.

The Jerusalem center for Israeli and Palestinian affairs affirmed in a new report that 1,226 Israelis stormed al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem over the past month.

996 Israeli settlers stormed the holy shrine during November along with 148 Israeli policemen and soldiers in their military uniform, in addition to 182 Jewish students.

The report pointed out that 28,985 tourists visited the holy shrine during the same period.

According to the sources, the number of extremist settlers breaking into Al-Aqsa Mosque has decreased during November in comparison with October during which more than 3,000 Israelis stormed the compound especially during the Jewish holidays.